I decided that i wanted to change the topic from my previous clue posts. I decided to conduct my interviews this time with non-conventional students.
Person One: Question 1: How do you balance social life and academics? "It is difficult because i want to do well in school, but i have a family to take care of which is where most of my "social life" is spent" (Family- wife and two kids.)
Question 2: Do you eat breakfast? "Typically i do yes" "we try to eat together for breakfast most every morning"
Question 3: Do you keep a daily planner? "Definitely, i don’t think i could balance my life without one."
Question 4: why did you decide to go back or start school? "My wife and i decided that it would be too difficult and irresponsible for us both to go to college after high school. Because we had our son to take care of so she started school first. By the time she graduated our daughter was born and it took a little while for her to get her career started. Once she did i knew that it was my turn. I knew that i was making good money but i wanted personal accomplishment and in the end a better life for my family."
Question 5: is this your first time in college? "Yes"
Question 6: what did you do before going back to school? "I worked for the railroad as an engineer for about 7 years"
Person Two: Question 1: How do you balance social life and academics? "School work comes first; i entertain a social life when time permits"
Question 2: Do you eat breakfast? "Usually, mostly on the go"
Question 3: Do you keep a daily planner? "Not outside of my class schedule, I’ve never enjoyed the idea of having my life planned out even if it’s myself making the plan"
Question 4: why did you decide to go back or start school? "To get a good job, plus it’s free"
Question 5: is this your first time in college? "Yes"
Question 6: what did you do before going back to school? “I served in the United States Army for 6 years"
Based on the interviews i conducted as well as personal experience. I concluded that there are many reasons in which someone doesn’t go to school right after high school. People from all walks of life return to school for one reason or another. Whether it is for personal accomplishment, hopes of a better job post-graduation. Some do it for income threw school and use it as a way of paying bills. i have spoken to many nonconventional college students apart from the interviewed in this section and the craziest comment that i have heard is " I’m going to college to postpone actually doing anything with my life for another four years" thus proving that there is no single category that nonconventional students can be placed into. I found that most of the nonconventional students that I’ve spoken with at Bloomsburg are veterans, my self included. Whether they joined with an obligation to self / country or whether they decided that, that was how they were going to pay for college all along. Thus graduating debt free unlike the millions of college student that graduate with years of debt. This isn’t always the case however "Person one" is a Bloomsburg student also and chose to go back to school for his family. a very honorable decision.
Person One:
Question 1: How do you balance social life and academics?
"It is difficult because i want to do well in school, but i have a family to take care of which is where most of my "social life" is spent"
(Family- wife and two kids.)
Question 2: Do you eat breakfast?
"Typically i do yes" "we try to eat together for breakfast most every morning"
Question 3: Do you keep a daily planner?
"Definitely, i don’t think i could balance my life without one."
Question 4: why did you decide to go back or start school?
"My wife and i decided that it would be too difficult and irresponsible for us both to go to college after high school. Because we had our son to take care of so she started school first. By the time she graduated our daughter was born and it took a little while for her to get her career started. Once she did i knew that it was my turn. I knew that i was making good money but i wanted personal accomplishment and in the end a better life for my family."
Question 5: is this your first time in college?
"Yes"
Question 6: what did you do before going back to school?
"I worked for the railroad as an engineer for about 7 years"
Person Two:
Question 1: How do you balance social life and academics?
"School work comes first; i entertain a social life when time permits"
Question 2: Do you eat breakfast?
"Usually, mostly on the go"
Question 3: Do you keep a daily planner?
"Not outside of my class schedule, I’ve never enjoyed the idea of having my life planned out even if it’s myself making the plan"
Question 4: why did you decide to go back or start school?
"To get a good job, plus it’s free"
Question 5: is this your first time in college?
"Yes"
Question 6: what did you do before going back to school?
“I served in the United States Army for 6 years"
Based on the interviews i conducted as well as personal experience. I concluded that there are many reasons in which someone doesn’t go to school right after high school.
People from all walks of life return to school for one reason or another. Whether it is for personal accomplishment, hopes of a better job post-graduation. Some do it for income threw school and use it as a way of paying bills. i have spoken to many nonconventional college students apart from the interviewed in this section and the craziest comment that i have heard is " I’m going to college to postpone actually doing anything with my life for another four years" thus proving that there is no single category that nonconventional students can be placed into. I found that most of the nonconventional students that I’ve spoken with at Bloomsburg are veterans, my self included. Whether they joined with an obligation to self / country or whether they decided that, that was how they were going to pay for college all along. Thus graduating debt free unlike the millions of college student that graduate with years of debt.
This isn’t always the case however "Person one" is a Bloomsburg student also and chose to go back to school for his family. a very honorable decision.